Outcomes

Innovation With Impact

Identify problems in medical informatics with high potential for impact and utility

Problem Solving Skills

Formulate problems, critically evaluate them and research & build methods to solve them

Knowledge-based Scholarship

Comprehend, recall and apply concepts in computing, health, mathematics and medical informatics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Experiential Learning

Participate in teams with other professionals developing and adapting computer science solutions to health problems

Professional and Leadership Skills

Develop skills in ethics, communications, presentation, publishing, media, networking, leadership and team management

EDI Awareness and Promotion

Train with experts in race and informatics, inclusive workplaces, anti-racism, mental health, gender diversity, unconscious bias and intercultural awareness

News

Med-i CREATE Master’s Students Successfully Complete Their Degrees

Congratulations to Med-i CREATE Master’s students Tyler Elliott, Maha Kesibi, E Ching Kho, Bining Long, and Sarah Nassar on successfully completing their degrees. Tyler Elliott Maha Kesibi E Ching Kho Bining Long Sarah Nassar
Emma Willis and Vivian Nguyen Awarded Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s for 2025-2026

Emma Willis and Vivian Nguyen Awarded Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s for 2025-2026

Emma Willis and Vivian Nguyen, both students in the Med-i CREATE program, have been awarded the prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS M) for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Colton Barr Wins Runner-Up Poster Award at Prestigious Hamlyn Symposium’s “Healing Through Collaboration” Workshop

Colton Barr Wins Runner-Up Poster Award at Prestigious Hamlyn Symposium’s “Healing Through Collaboration” Workshop

Congratulations to Colton Barr for earning the Runner-Up Poster Award at the “Healing Through Collaboration” workshop during the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics in London, UK—one of the world's leading events in medical robotics research and innovation.
Triple Triumph for Laura Connolly at IPCAI 2025

Triple Triumph for Laura Connolly at IPCAI 2025

Med-i CREATE program is thrilled to celebrate Laura Connolly's remarkable achievements at the 16th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI)! Laura earned well-deserved recognition with three distinguished awards. ImFusion Long Abstract Presentation – Audience Choice Award J&J MedTech Best Presentation – Audience Choice Award Student Participation Award Congratulations to Laura for this outstanding recognition and for making...

Director

Parvin Mousavi

Prof. Comp/ECE/Pathology, member of the Royal Soc of Canada, College of New Scholars

As the world’s population grows to 10B by 2050, technology-enabled innovation is the critical to ensuring well-being for all. While AI and informatics show great promise in rapid analysis of next-generation large scale data, future workers will require highly specialized training fit to the unique nature of health data. We aim to solidify Canada’s competitive advantage in the global space through concerted efforts to train computer scientists with specialized multi-disciplinary experience in medical informatics and digital health, and engage diverse groups and lived experiences in our training.

Projects

Integration, federation, and retrieval of large-scale data repositories in Canada

We collaborate with the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) and the Ontario Health Data Platform (OHDP) to tackle novel challenges in data management and devise evaluation frameworks that center on security, performance and fairness.

Next generation of actionable prescriptive analysis using multi-resolution, multi-modality data

We build computation models of disease from multi-omics data using machine learning, deep learning and evolutionary algorithms, focusing on innovations that address the unique nature of health data and the unavailability and vagueness of gold-standard labels (e.g., pathology labels).

Democratization of AI, software and data for healthcare

We're international leaders in developing and disseminating open source software using low-cost point-of-care imaging. Our positive impact on the global computer–assisted medical interventions community has is constantly expanding. We'll meet new challenges for discovery, refinement of methods and innovative AI-powered solutions using large open source data, hence democratizing access to care and positive outcomes of AI.

Featured Students

McKinley Van Klei
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Queen's University
I graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Applied Science in mechanical and materials engineering with a specialization in biomechanical engineering, in the spring of 2024. I recently started the Master of Applied Science program in biomechanical engineering with…
Meara Sanjayan
Translational Medicine
Queen's University
Meara Sanjayan is a first-year MSc student in the Translational Medicine Graduate Program. Previously, she completed her Bachelor of Health Sciences at Queen’s. For her master’s research, co-supervised by Dr. Karen Yeates and Dr. Amber Simpson, she is investigating how…
Mohammad Farahmand
School of Computing
Queen's University
Mohammad is a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Prof. Parvin Mousavi. After completing his master's thesis, which was focused on computer vision and deep learning, he has joined the Med-i lab at Queen's School of Computing since September 2023,…
Mateen Mirzaei
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Western University
My name is Mateen Mirzaei. I started my MSc in Medical Biophysics in 2023, at the Robarts Research Institute, Western University. I completed my Honours Bachelor of Medical Science - Honours Specialization in Medical Biophysics also from Western University. I…

University Partners

Western University